340th Bomb Group History

340th Bombardment Group History

340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
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November 10, 1944 Mission to Casale Monferrato Railroad Bridge

Squadron War Diary

340th HQ Diary The missions today were virtually all failures. Owing to difficulties with the "radio release" technique, the three boxes attacking the Casale Monferrato bridge missed the objective, and only one in three boxes managed to hit the Cittadella railroad diversion.

486th Not assigned to this mission

487th Two six ship missions left the ground today within twenty minutes of one another. First six took off at 11:05 to bomb Caslae Monferrato railroad bridge in Northern Italy. Three planes in the formation were holed by the intense flak encountered although they failed to drop their bombs due to a malfunctioning intervelometer in the lead ship.......Cittadella by-pass was the target for the following six ship formation. Their pattern cut the eastern end of the by-pass at the overwater section with direct hits observed on target. No ack-ack was encountered over the target although a slight barrage was met enroute. All planes returned to the base undamaged.

488th Not assigned to this mission

489th During this period [November 8th - 10th] we ran only one mission, which was disappointingly unsuccessful.

Target in 1944

Target Today

Squadron	War Diary
340th HQ Diary	The missions today were virtually all failures. Owing to difficulties with the "radio release" technique, the three boxes attacking the Casale Monferrato bridge missed the objective, and only one in three boxes managed to hit the Cittadella railroad diversion.
486th	Not assigned to this mission
487th	Two six ship missions left the ground today within twenty minutes of one another. First six took off at 11:05 to bomb Caslae Monferrato railroad bridge in Northern Italy. Three planes in the formation were holed by the intense flak encountered although they failed to drop their bombs due to a malfunctioning intervelometer in the lead ship.......Cittadella by-pass was the target for the following six ship formation. Their pattern cut the eastern end of the by-pass at the overwater section with direct hits observed on target. No ack-ack was encountered over the target although a slight barrage was met enroute. All planes returned to the base undamaged.
488th	Not assigned to this mission
489th	During this period [November 8th - 10th] we ran only one mission, which was disappointingly unsuccessful.

Crew Lists and Mission Reports

487th Squadron

489th Squadron

340th BG Squadron Insignia
	486th B.S.	487th B.S.	488th B.S.	489th B.S.
	Click on the squadron insignia above for links to digitized squadron histories